SACRAMENTO, CALIF. ? Scot Pollard has a buddy in Sacramento Kings’ camp: former Kansas University teammate Eric Chenowith.
“He’s a Jayhawk, but he’s not a Jayhawk like I am. He’s from Orange County area and I’m from a little further south, so he’s a little different,” joked Pollard, a Kings’ veteran who hails from San Diego. Chenowith is a native of Orange, Calif.
“He was asking me a few things and I just said, ‘Hey, work hard.’ That was my ticket to success and that’s the only reason I’m still in the league, I think.
“Hopefully, I’ll be in the league for a while longer from working hard. But he’s got some skills. He’s got a nice shooting touch, so I tell him to be sure he’s making his shots because that’s one thing that he can do very well, and try to be a little bit more aggressive than he usually is he’s a little bit soft sometimes so I try to just tell him, ‘Hey, keep working hard and be a little bit more aggressive and that’s all you can do.'”
Pollard told the Kings’ web reporter it will be difficult for any free agent to make the team. Sacramento has brought in five big men. Three players can be kept on injured reserve.
“If I’m one of those guys, it would be very hard to think that, ‘Hey, there’s 20 guys here, at the most there’s 15 spots.’ Who knows if we’ll keep past 12 we’ve got 12 guarantees I think.”
